Will the state of health emergency, which the government has already extended until July 10, be renewed until the end of the summer? According to our information, this is in any case the path planned at this stage by the government which has even registered on the agenda of the National Assembly a vote on June 17, at 3 p.m., for a new project of prorogation which could last two months.
Adopted for the first time on March 24, the text has since given exceptional resources to the executive to fight the epidemic, even if the latest figures confirm a clear decline in the virus throughout the country. “No one is able to know if there will be a second wave in the weeks to come or not. By extending the state of emergency, we are giving ourselves the means to be able to act, in particular by restricting the freedom to come and go in the event that a new peak of contamination reappears during the holidays, ”said a ministerial adviser, who always speaks of "transitional and exceptional device to go quickly".
Text to be studied on June 17
This certainly promises further heated debates in Parliament in the coming days. During the previous extension, adopted on May 9, deputies and senators had sharply clashed over certain highly contested measures, such as those related to the criminal responsibility of elected officials, but also the tracing of people infected via an information system, or even preventive quarantine of sick people. Some of these provisions were censored by the Constitutional Council a few days later. The content of the text discussed on June 17 is not yet known to date. "We want to have as much perspective as possible," is content to answer Matignon, to delay.
It remains to be seen whether the device will be extended again at the start of the school year. Again, everything will depend on the evolution of the pandemic during the summer. Especially since the closure of the Senate in September, due to senatorial elections, could prevent a new passage before the High Assembly.
